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VBLOGIPEDE. v No. 349,802. I Patented Sept. 28, 1886.

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VELOOIPEDE Patented Sept. 28, 1886.

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HOMER A. KING, OF SPRINGFIELD, MASSACHUSETTS.

VELOCIPEDE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 349,802, dated September 28, 1886.

' Application filed May 10, 1886. Serial No. l,7 26. (No model.)

To all whoml it may concern.-

Be it known that I, HOMER A. KING, a citi- 7 zen of the United States, residing at Springfield, in the county of Hampden and State of Massachusetts, have invented new and'useful Improvements inVelocipedes, which improvements are fully set forth in the following specification, the accompanying drawings making part of the specification.

My invention relates to improvements in bicycles, tricycles, and quadrieycles; and it consists in an improved construction of the steering-head; in an improved handlebar and brake; in a new construction of a hollow felly-rim; to improved rubber tires and improved means of securing the rubber tireto the felly; to improved means of securing antifriction rollers in place, and improved means of securing connectionbetween the propel- 4 is a section of Fig. 3 with my anti-friction spool-bearings added. Fig. 5 is a rear view of my improved handle-bar, which bends.

downward and backward. Fig. 6 is a top View of Fig. 4 with my brake-handle added. Fig. 7 shows the rollers used in making 1101- low felly-rims'shown in Figs. 8, 9, and 10. Figs. 7, 8", 9, and 10 show the construction of and the completed double protuberant hollow rim, made'of one piece of metal, united by lapping and brazing on the inner convex side nearest the hub, and rubber tire of suitable form. It may have side projections, as shown,

constructed on the outer or upper portion by the rollers and afterward bent down to the position as shown.

Fig. 8 shows my rubber tire contracted as made, and by broken lines its position when in place in the folly-rim,

the contraction on the inside and the openings fitting over the side projections serving to hold it in place, and the contraction on the outer surface preventing its being easily cut by sharp stones. Fig. 9 shows the two grooves formed by straight lines as shoulders for the rubber tire. Fig. 10 shows by broken lines the bottom of the rubber bed fiat and its form when slightlyconvex. Fig. 11 shows a new form of the hub y and spoke-flange K, which may be thin and flexible near its outer periphery. It also shows inclined rollers secured in place at each end on projection or axle. These projections, formed on each end of the rollers or by an axle running through each roller and projecting at each end into cavities in a collar which touches only these projections, hold the rollers apart and in place. Fig. 12 shows another form of hub with one propelling-drum B secured to the axle and one retracting-drum B, whereby the depression of one lever on one side of the .drivewheel raises the lever on the other side of the drive-wheel. I

A part of these improvements was de scribed in the original application,filed J anuary 20,18S6, Serial No. 189,181, which has been divided into three separate applications. \Vhatever, therefore, isin this application that is claimed in either of the other two applications I hereby disclaim.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, isf 1. The combination of the backbone M, neck M, collar 0, steering-hcad'c, and inclined spool-bearings between the collar 0 and the steering-head 0', substantially as shown.

2.-The rearwardly-inclined handle-bar, in combination with the brake G, made of one piece of metal and secured by a collar near the center to 'the handle-bar, substantially as shown. 3. A hollow felly-rim constructed of one piece of metal, with an outer central elevation in the rubbertire bed, and bent inward at c and c and lapped, forming a protuberance toward'the hub, substantially as set forth.

4. A hollow fellyrim constructed of one.

piece of metahwith a central elevation in the the inside of the circle, and with the rollers rubber-tire bed, and with projections on each held apart at each end by a collar, substanside of the central elevation, substantially as tially as set forth in Fig. 11.

and for the purpose set forth.

5 5. Inclined adjustable rollers running in a HOMER A. KING.

circle between an inclined surface on the out- Witnessesi A. J. KING, side of the circle and an inclined surface on E. BARTHOLOMEW. 

